My wife's Dell Vostro 220 is now running Windows 7 x64 and has 8 GB of RAM. I upgraded her BIOS to 1.3.0 before swapping the memory (I read somewhere that the updated BIOS supports the full 8GB).
On a related note, you can actually get the service tag out of your Dell computer in Windows by issuing the following command.
Following WMIC command will give make and model number along with service tag (service tag is IdentifyingNumber here:
C:\>wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber
IdentifyingNumber Name Vendor
ABCDEF1 PowerEdge 2950 Dell Inc.
In Linux:
[remote-host]# dmidecode -s system-serial-number
ABCDEF1
HT: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/10/view-dell-service-tag-and-express-service-code-from-linux-and-windows/
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hi, thanks for the info. What RAM are you using?
Any time. 2x PC6400 (800MHz) DDR2 Non-ECC 4gb modules
any particular brand?
just want to get the exact ones so my chances of it working are better you know?
Ah, got it. I bought:
Patriot PSD24G8002 Signature 4GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory PSD24G8002
from ramexperts.com
My price was 95.98 on Oct 15 2011
Hi there
Mine doesn't boot with 8GB RAM (2X4GB).
What am I doing wrong?
BIOS 1.3
VOSTRO 220s
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